Shirt.



W. H. FOX.

SHIRT.

APPLICATION FILED we. 2, 1913.

1,1 1 9,589, Patented Dec. 1,1914.

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WILLIAM H. FOX, or MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

SHIRT.

Specification of Letters Patent. 1 Patented Dec, 1, 1914.

Application filed August 2, 1913. Serial No. 782,585.

To all 107mm it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. Fox, of Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shirts; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in shirts of the open front type, and it consists in stitching each of two sections of a bosom. part way down its outer edge to a flap which forms a hinge connection between the bosom section and the shirt front to which latter the flap is secured, the bosom sections being disconnected from the front part way down their outer side edges and wholly at their lower ends and also at their inner or meeting edges.

My invention further consists in cutting away one edge of the front at a point above the lower edge of its bosom section so as to permit the shirt front under the other bosom section to cross and overlap and thus provide two thicknesses at the front, without any bunching of the material at the point of crossing.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in front elevation of the shirt, showing in dotted lines the points of attachment of the bosom sections to the shirt front and also showing in dotted lines, the overlapping edges of the front at the rear of the bosom sections. Fig. 2 is a view showing one section of bosom turned back, and Fig. 8 is a view showing both bosom sections turned back from its front.

1 represents a shirt, open at the front, and 2 and 3 are the bosom sections, secured to the shirt front sections 4, by the flaps 5, which are stitched to the shirt front, and extend back to the arm holes, thus acting as reinforcements. These flaps are stitched to the front at their outer edges as at 6, and also by the vertical line of stitching 7 intermediate the two side edges of the flap members 5, thus leaving the inner or adjacent edges of the flaps free. The bosom sections 2 and 3, are secured at their outer edges bv stitching 8, to the flaps 5, and are free at their inner or adjacent edges, at their tops and lower edges, and also at their outer side edges from the lower ends of the flaps down. This leaves the bosoms absolutely free of the shirt front, and unattached to the latter, except at their outer side edges,

agonally from a point 9 adjacent the upper 1 end of the flap 5, the diagonal line crossing the inner edge of the bosom about midway the length of the latter, the exact point of crossing however being immaterial so long as it is above the lower edge of the bosom.

The front of the shirt under bosom section 2, is attached by a flap 5, in precisely the same manner, and the shirt front under the same is also cut away on a diagonal line, and being wider at its lower end than its bosom, the lower ends of the front overlap from a point above the lower ends of the bosom section and thus protect the abdomen By this by double thickness of material. means of attaching the bosom sections. the

latter are free to be turned over on the hinge joints formed by the flaps 5. so that both sides of the bosom sections will be accessible, thus permitting them to be ironed with their rear faces directly on the ironing-board, and

avoiding all impressions that would be produced by any wrinkles in the front. and by the diagonal cut away portion of the front sections under the bosom sections. IVith this construction I provide two thicknesses of material for the protection of the bodv of the wearer below the bosom sections without any bunching or bulging of the material at the point where the parts overlap, and by leaving the bosom sections free, when the wearer sits down, or bends, the free lower ends of the bosom sections slide over the front of the shirt, and thus permit of absolute freedom of movement without any wrinkling of the bosom.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is:

An open front shirt consisting of front sections, flaps secured thereto and bosom sections stitched to the flaps, the latter forming hinge joints for the bosom sections,

the front sections overlapping from a point In testimony whereof, I have signed this above the lower ends of the bosom sections specification in the presence of two subdown to a point below the same, and the scrlbing Witnesses.

upper free edges of said front sections ex- WILLIAM H. FOX.

tending diagonally upwardly to approxi- Witnesses:

mately the upper outer ends of said bosom VILLIAM XV. STQRMs,

sections. EDITH bomTz.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of 'latents,

Washington, D. C. 

